Dubai Real Estate Institute Organises An International Training Course With The Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (MIT) (26 August 2017)

The course focuses on the intersection of real estate, technology and innovation

Dubai Real Estate Institute (DREI), the educational arm of Dubai Land Department (DLD), has announced that it is organising an international training course with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The two-day course will focus on the intersection of real estate, technology and innovation and take place at DREI’s headquarters on 11th and 12th September 2017.

DREI is confident that the course will attract high participation and is targeting professionals from various segments of the real estate sector including real estate analysts, mortgage lenders, real estate developers, asset and property managers, portfolio managers, lease brokers and sales brokers.

Mahmoud El Burai, Executive Director of DREI, commented: "This course represents an excellent opportunity for professionals in the real estate sector, as it will allow them to benefit from the exceptional expertise of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – one of the world's most prestigious and well-known institutions. The course is aligned with DREI’s mission to provide the real estate market with the latest technologies and studies, and has been designed to allow attendees to explore the ways that technology can improve customer services and ensure that transactions are completed with high accuracy, ease and speed."

The course will focus on a variety of topics including upcoming technologies that are expected to have a significant impact on the real estate sector. A number of recently launched technologies will also be reviewed for their potential to contribute to innovation in the real estate sector. The lecturers will provide an in-depth overview of the opportunities that have been provided by modern technology, and also cover important trends in the real estate environment and how creativity can be stimulated to maintain leadership.

Al Burai added: "This course reflects many of DREI’s objectives, particularly our goal to support the government's vision of exploring the future and making Dubai the smartest city in the field of real estate. On the course, participants will not only be looking at current technologies, but also trying to anticipate the future and pinpoint how we can improve our operations in line with technological progress. We are confident that the course will help us in our mission to disseminate real estate knowledge across a variety of segments.”

Technology is currently enabling an unprecedented wave of innovation in commercial activities, and the real estate sector has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of these developments. With technological progress gaining pace, it is crucial for the sector to exploit the explosive growth of mobile technology, crowd sourcing, the sharing economy, cloud storage, big-small data, and complex analytics – all of which will be covered in the new course.